The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St Patrick's
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
The Fidelio Trio ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE 2014/15 Music Department St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra The Fidelio Trio Darragh Morgan (violin) | Mary Dullea (piano) | Adi Tal (cello) Concert Schedule 2014/15 Wednesday 1 October 2014 Wednesday 25 February 2015 Lunchtime Concert Series Evening Concert St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Auditorium, St Patrick’s College, 7.30 pm Mozart – Piano Trio in B flat major K502 Fauré – Piano Trio Op. 120 Michael Nyman – Time Will Pronounce John Buckley – Piano Trio Judith Weir – Piano Trio Two (Irish premiere) Friday - Sunday 5 - 7 December 2014 Schoenberg (arr. Steuermann) – Verklärte Nacht Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at Belvedere House, St Patrick’s College Wednesday 15 April 2015 The Fidelio Trio with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Lunchtime Concert Series Meghan Cassidy (viola) (see inset for festival details) St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Dorothy Ker – Channel (World premiere) Wednesday 10 December 2014 Mozart – Piano Trio in E major K 542 Lunchtime Concert Series St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Wednesday 8 July 2015 Mendelssohn - Variations Concertantes Evening Concert Suk - Ballade & Serenade Auditorium, St Patrick’s College, 7.30 pm John Adams - Road Movies Martin O’Leary – Bluescape Liszt arr. Saint-Saens – Orphée (Poeme Symphonique) Wednesday 21 January 2015 Chausson – Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Lunchtime Concert Series St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Benedict Schlepper-Connolly – Ekstase II (Irish premiere) Mark Bowden – Airs No Oceans Keep (Irish premiere) Percy Grainger – Colonial Song Free Admission to all concerts The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St Patrick’s College 5-7 December 2014 Darragh Morgan (violin) Mary Dullea (piano) Adi Tal (cello) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Meghan Cassidy (viola) We are delighted to announce our second Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St Patrick’s College where we have continued to enjoy a wonderful artistic residency since 2012. This year’s Festival welcomes the unique talents of oboe soloist, Nicholas Daniel and violist Meghan Cassidy as well as the internationally renowned Irish composer, Gerald Barry and Saoi of Aosdána, composer Seoirse Bodley. The Festival programme embraces three world premiere commissions, complemented by classical chamber music masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Dvořák. We will pay homage to composers from the East who all struggled under regimes for their art, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Pärt and Dmitri Shostakovich. The Saturday lunchtime concert features one of Schumann’s most popular works, the Piano Quartet in E flat alongside a beautiful Schumann transcription for oboe by Belfast- born composer Howard Ferguson. A special welcome goes to our colleagues from the European Chamber Music Teachers Association whose Autumn Gathering takes place concurrently. All concerts will take place within the atmospheric salon setting of the 17th Century Belvedere House, located on the leafy Drumcondra campus of St Patrick’s College. We look forward to seeing you there! The Fidelio Trio Programme Friday 5 December 7.30 pm Saturday 6 December 6.30 pm OPENING FESTIVAL CONCERT EASTERN PROMISE Gerald Barry ‘Fanfare’ for Solo oboe (World premiere) Arvo Pärt Fratres for Violin and Piano Schubert String Trio in B flat major D471 Sofia Gubaidulina Chaconne for Solo Piano Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major K370 Schnittke Stille Musik for Violin and Cello Gerald Barry New work for violin and piano Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor (World premiere) Op. 40 Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Sunday 7 December 3.15 pm Saturday 6 December 1.15 pm FOLK INSPIRATIONS SCHUMANN Haydn Piano Trio in G major Hob.XV:25 (‘Gypsy’) Schumann Three Duos for Oboe and Piano Seoirse Bodley Piano Trio (World Premiere) arr. Howard Ferguson Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 (‘Dumky’) Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47 Biographies The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) perform Bainbridge, Edison Denisov and Beat Furrer whom they diverse repertoire internationally. They broadcast regularly have performed throughout Europe, the USA, South on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR and in 2010 were Africa and China. featured in a Sky Arts documentary. Since their debut at 2015-16 will see a concert series at St. John’s Smith London’s South Bank they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Square, London and a residency at University of Kings Place, Purcell Room and Royal Opera House, London, Birmingham. They are artists-in-residence at the Music festivals including City of London, Cheltenham Music Department, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra 2012-2015. Festival, St. Magnus International Festival, Huddersfield www.fideliotrio.com Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton, Vale of Glamorgan, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Meghan Cassidy (violin) Concert Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, “Violist Meghan Cassidy stands out... Casa da Musica (Porto), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), with a fine tone, a good feeling for Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and Palazzo Albrizzi, chamber music and a real personality” Venice (Italy), Johannesburg Music Society, Symphony (Tully Potter, The Strad). Meghan was Space and SubCulture, New York City, Princeton University born in London in 1988 and studied with and MIT Boston. Garfield Jackson at the Royal Academy of Music, where The Fidelio Trio’s most recent CD release is Korngold and she graduated in 2010. She continued her studies with Schoenberg (Verklarte Nacht arr. Steuermann) on Naxos Tatjana Masurenko (Leipzig), Nabuko Imai (Hamburg) and this year they will record the complete Schumann and Hartmut Rohde at IMS Prussia Cove. Meghan enjoys Piano Trios for Resonus Classics. Their extensive a busy career as a Chamber Musician, and Orchestral discography includes the complete Michael Nyman Principal. As a member of the Solstice Quartet (winners Piano Trios for MN Records, Tracing Lines (Robert Fokkens) of the Royal Overseas League 2009), Meghan has on Metier Divine Art, Bulb (Irish Piano Trios), My Broken performed at the Wigmore Hall, Museé d’Orsay, Paris and Machines (Ed Bennett) and Bartlebooth (Joe Cutler) all on live on BBC Radio 3. She is currently Principal Violist with NMC, Metamorphoses (Haflidi Hallgrimsson), The Piano the Orion Symphony Orchestra. Meghan has also guest Tuner (Sally Beamish, Nigel Osborne and Judith Weir) and led the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Airs, Waters (Piers Hellawell) for Delphian Records, Rob Royal Scottish National Orchestra, she regularly plays Keeley on Convivium and Luke Bedford’s debut portrait with RPO, CBSO, BSO, BBCSSO and Aurora Orchestra. CD on Col Legno as Ernst von Siemens composer award Highlights this year include recitals at North York Moors winner 2012. Chamber Music Festival and Jack Liebeck’s Chamber The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with composition Music Festival in Switzerland. and performance students through masterclasses at institutions including Peabody Conservatory John Nicholas Daniel Hopkins University, Curtis Institute of Music, The Royal Nicholas Daniel’s long and distinguished Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music career began when, at the age of 18, and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, University of he won the BBC Young Musician of the Manchester, Cardiff University, Cork School of Music, Year Competition and went on to win Stellenbosch Conservatorium and WITS Johannesburg. further competitions in Europe. As one of They have been artists-in-residence at University of the UK’s most distinguished soloists as well as a highly Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Davenport Residency successful conductor, he has become an important holders at State University of New York, SUNY and ambassador for music and musicians in many different Cheltenham Festival’s Composer Academy. fields. In recognition of this, he was recently awarded In promoting contemporary music, they are constantly the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music. commissioning new works and the range of leading Nicholas has been heard on every continent, and international composers that The Fidelio Trio are has been a concerto soloist with many of the world’s closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, leading orchestras and conductors, working under Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Sir Roger Norrington, Nyman. Their many world and UK premieres include Oliver Knussen, Jiri Belohlavek, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Evan Ziporyn, Simon Peter Maxwell Davies. He has premiered works by composers including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Henri Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Ulster Orchestra, RTE Dutilleux, Thea Musgrave, Nigel Osborne, John Tavener, Concert Orchestra, KZN Philharmonic South Africa, James MacMillan and Sir Michael Tippett. Koln Kammer Orkest, Istanbul Symphony Orchestra He made his conducting debut at the Proms in 2004 and Cyprus Chamber Orchestra. International with Britten Sinfonia, of which he is an artistic associate festival appearances include Wien Modern, Bang and founder member. As a conductor in Europe, he has on a Can Marathon New York, Lucerne Festival, BBC strong associations with Scandinavia, having worked Proms Chamber Music, Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and with the Jonkøping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He is a Lapland Chamber Orchestra and Kristiansand Chamber member of the Fidelio Trio with whom has appeared Orchestra. He conducted